Minggu, 21 Agustus 2011

10 Fakta Penyebab Mengapa Anda Tidak Beruntung

Jika Anda kerap merasa sebagai orang yang tak beruntung, yang sebenarnya bisa jadi sebagian besar itu semua Anda sendiri yang menciptakannya. Coba cermati 10 hal penyebab sial di bawah ini, jika ternyata Anda melakukan kesalahan-kesalahan di bawah ini, maka sudah selayaknya pemikiran dan keyakinan Anda perlu diubah lagi.

1. Tak Punya Selera Humor -
Jika Anda tipe orang yang menanggapi segala hal secara serius, maka Anda masuk daftar pertama ini. Mulailah belajar tertawa. Tawa adalah obat paling ampuh dalam segala hal. Jika Anda tak dapat menjadikan permasalahan yang Anda hadapi sebagai lelucon, malah sebaliknya mengeluh panjang lebar tentang masalah tersebut, bisa jadi masalah ini sebenarnya tak seburuk yang Anda pikirkan. Sekali Anda buktikan, maka sepanjang hidup semua masalah tak seburuk yang Anda kira.

2. Menyalahkan Pihak Lain -
Kenapa Anda begitu mudah patah? Bukan berarti mengatakan orang lain tak bersalah, tapi saat menunjuk pada hal itu, Anda akhirnya malah mengubah uang Anda sendiri. Sekali lagi, berhentilah merasa menyesali diri dan berhentilah mengeluh. Jika usaha yang Anda lakukan tak membawa hasil seperti yang diharapkan, maka lakukan hal yang berbeda. Jadi orang yang berbeda sesekali, bisa jadi hal bagus buat diri Anda. Ingat, mulailah dengan berhenti mengeluh, dan berdamailah dengan segala keadaan yang Anda hadapi.

3. Tak Bahagia Dengan Diri Sendiri Saat Melihatnya di Kaca -

Kenapa bis begitu? Dengan standard siapa Anda membandingkan diri sendiri? Anda sendiri atau orang lain? Yang Sebenarnya, Anda bisa menemukan sesuatu dalam diri sendiri yang membuat Anda bahagia, atau melakukan perubahan. Lakukan keduanya jika Anda mau. Tak seorangpun di dunia ini yang dapat menghentikan Anda berpikir bahwa Anda menarik.

4. Tak Punya Harapan Atau Stuck -

Tak seorangpun yang dapat membuat Anda merasa lebih baik selain diri Anda sendiri. Anda tak bisa mengharapkan dunia berubah untuk Anda sebelum Anda mengubah diri.

5. Bertindak Lebih Dari Kemampuan -
Tindakan ini membuat Anda jadi tumpul, dan khususnya tak berarti 'Semua pekerjaan dan tak ada permainan.'

6. Khawatir Berlebihan -
Semakin Anda khawatir, semakin kurang keyakinan Anda kalau segala sesuatunya akan berjalan dengan baik. Bagaimana Anda dapat mengharapkan mendapat tempat dalam kehidupan jika Anda tak punya keyakinan atau rasa percaya diri? Biarkan semua berjalan apa adanya. Rileks.

7. Iri Dengan Keberuntungan Orang Lain -
Kapanpun Anda mendengar orang lain mendapat keberuntungan Anda selalu berseru, 'Orang itu bikin aku sangat kesal!' Mungkin jika Anda ikut bergembira dengan keberuntungan orang lain, maka keberuntungan yang sama bisa menular pada Anda.

8. Menyalahkan Tuhan -
Kadang Anda berpikir betapa Tuhan tidak adil pada Anda. Mungkin sebaiknya mulai sekarang Anda belajar bersyukur dan maka hal-hal baik akan datang menggantikan hal-hal buruk. Anda bisa memulainya dengan bersyukur bangun dalam keadaan sehat di pagi hari.

9. Tak Menghargai Hal-Hal Baik Yang Anda Miliki -
Sebagai contohnya, Anda tak pernah mensyukuri kalau Anda masih bisa bangun pagi ini dan melihat sinar matahari? Benar begitu? Mulai sekarang, Anda bisa menghitung kebaikan yang Anda miliki dalam hidup dari hal-hal kecil yang Anda miliki.

10. Mengeluh Terus Menerus -
Sebenarnya, mengeluhkan satu hal malah akan lebih banyak hal lain yang Anda keluhkan. Dan yang pasti semua orang merasa terganggu dengan orang yang suka mengeluh.

Bagaimana menurut Anda? Jika benar dari 10 hal di atas ada pada diri Anda. Coba lakukan perubahan, dan ketidakberuntungan itu hanya akan tinggal bayang-bayang :-)

Minggu, 14 Agustus 2011

How To Make Money Blogging

After you create a blog that is interesting, now it is time to start making money. The second step of getting visitors is the most important, if you plan on making money. The third step is choosing how you will make money from your blog. You should try to keep your blog on the same topic on all your post, being that you can have an unlimited number of blogs, you can have a blog for any and every topic you choose. Make sure to start a new blog if you are totally off the main subject of the blog that you are posting to.

Blogger and several other free blog companies make it very simple to have a brand new blog up and running in a matter of a few minutes. Try not to post an article about dogs on a blog about golf. Once you have an interesting blog on one particular topic, the best place to start making money is Google AdSense. Blogger has made it very simple to add AdSense ads to your blog.
The ads that show up on your blog will be targeted towards the topic of your blog, which means if you have a blog about dogs, the ads that show up on your blog will deal with pets. It's like Google is paying you to advertise on your blog.

Another way to make money with your blog is with affiliate programs. Companies will pay you good money to advertise their products, and all you have to do is put a link or banner on your blog leading to that companies web site. Once a sale is made the company gives you a commission. That is the reason you should pick one topic for your blog. If you want to have a blog about your life, by all means do it, but have other blogs about specific topics if you want to make money.

Once you find a topic that interest you, look for affiliate programs for that particular topic. With the dog blog example, there are several dog training products that you can have links and banners to on a dog blog that will make good money. ClickBank is the top company when it comes to affiliate products, they have over 10,000 products to choose from. Browse their products to see which ones you would like to promote. Obviously you want to pick something that fits the topic of your blog, but don't limit yourself to just one, you can change a product you are promoting with a few clicks.

The internet is the essence of marketing, by that I mean, every word in an ad matters, every color, where the ad is located on your blog, whether is is blinking or not, and the color of the text. It might not seem like all of those things matter, but the fact is, everything that you decide matters. The good thing is you can experiment with how your blog looks as much as you want. There are several e-books written on how you should place and where you should place them, in the beginning, just go with the basic blog set-up until you get the hang of things.

Rabu, 10 Agustus 2011

Finding The Best Forex Traders

The forex trading market has become the biggest financial market in the world today and online currency trading is now one of the fastest growing investments. There are many ways to find information on forex trading and online currency trading but finding the best forex traders can be difficult if you don't know where to look.

With the growing popularity of forex trading and the information publicly available on the internet finding the best forex traders is no longer as difficult as it may have been. The currency analytical reports are now available to the public online and you can even access live data if you know where to look. Finding the best forex traders has become even easier and more and more people are beginning to reap these profits.

What Are the Best Forex Traders

Forex traders are the currencies that are traded by investors and the best forex traders are the currencies that are making the most profit for their investors. Currencies fluctuate constantly and keeping up to date with the state of these currencies used to be extremely difficult for small time investors.

The forex traders that are most popular and the ones that should be monitored closely are the "majors". These are the EUR/USD combination, the USD/JPY, the USD/CHF, and the GBP/USD. These combinations change constantly and knowing where these forex traders stand will allow you to make the profits you choose from your forex trading.

Forex trading guides and forex training education programs are available for anyone looking to earn money from this extremely lucrative system and most of these programs are designed with beginners in mind explaining all the technical language in simple easy to follow terms.

Forex trading could help you change your future; why not invest in it now?

Selasa, 09 Agustus 2011

Day Trading Indicators and Indicator Trading

Did You Begin Day Trading As An Indicator Only Trader?
Did you start day trading after buying a book on technical analysis, and getting a charting program - probably a free one that you found online - in order to save money? While reading your book you learned about trading indicators which could 'predict' price movement, and what do you know, the 'best' indicators were actually included in your free charting program - let the games begin.

Now that you have all the day trading tools that are necessary, the book for education AND the free charting program with those 'best' day trading indicators, you now need a day trading plan so you can decide which ones of those 'magic' day trading indicators you are supposed to use. This really is a great book, besides telling you how to day trade using indicators to 'predict' price - it also said that you need a trading plan to day trade.

So what should this plan be? The book told you about trend following using an indicator called macd, and it also told you how it was possible to pick the top or bottoms using an indicator called stochastic; my guess is that you picked the stochastic indicator to start your day trading - this must be the 'best of the best' since this indicator was going to ensure you of entering your trades with the 'best' price. Amazing, simply amazing how easy this day trading stuff really is. In fact, why even bother taking the trades, each time your indicators give a signal - just call up your broker and tell him to stick $100 in your account.

My book was Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets. My charting program was TradeStation with an eSignal fm receiver; that was the one that if you hung the antennae wires just right, and you put enough foil on the tips, you might even get quotes. I had sold a business before I started trading so I did have some capital - isn't that how everyone gets into trading, you either sell a business or you lose your job? My indicator was the macd as I had decided that I was going to be a 'trend follower' instead of a 'top-bottom picker'. I also decided that I was going to be 'extra' clever, if one indicator was good than two indicators must be better, so I added a 20 period moving average. My first trade was a winner, then after many months of extensive therapy, I was finally able to forget the next twelve months - ahhh the memories 

Learning To Day Trading - The Learning Progression

Beginning to day trade, or learning to day trade, as an indicator trader is very typical. This is also logical when you consider - HOW are you supposed to initially learn how to trade? Trading indicators are available to anyone who has a charting program, and simply using line crosses, or histogram color changes, provide 'easy' signals to understand. If you will also take the time to learn the arithmetic behind your indicators, as well as learning what each indicator is specifically intended to do, not only is this a logical way to begin, it is also a good 'step' in your learning progression - understanding the WHAT you are doing, instead of attempting to create 'canned' indicator only trading systems, without any regard as to WHY you are trading this way.

This does become one of the 'sticking' points in your learning progression, as you come to find out that you are unable to profitably trade indicators as signals only - now what? Now what - you 'can't' develop your own indicators, so you start doing google searches for day trading indicators and start buying your 'collection' - they don't 'work' either. Now what - you buy a mechanical trading system - what does hypothetical results may not be indicative of real trading or future results mean? Now what - you start subscribing to signal services OR you start joining the 'latest and greatest' chat room - am I really the only person using the signals who isn't profitable?

Now what - you never learn how to trade.

I began trading as an indicator trader, and I did try to learn everything that I could about the various indicators, as well as trying to combine indicators that were consistent with how I wanted to trade - I just could never develop a mechanical day trading system from what was available to me. I read a couple more books that didn't really help me, so I then started looking for someone who could teach me. From what I now know about gurus -vs- teachers, I am very lucky that I got involved with a money manager-trader who taught me a tremendous amount, but I still couldn't get profitable, in part because there was also 'pressure' to learn how to trade using real money. As well, any discussions or thoughts about trading psychology and the issues involved, especially to beginning traders, was non-existent.<

Now what - learning but losing - I stopped trading.
Learning to trading using real money, and 'scoffing' at trading psychology as simply individual weakness, really was something that I now regard as misinformation. I always mention this as I now feel that this cost me as much as a year of time, and was very close to costing me my trading future, as stopped trading was VERY close to quitting trading. How can't trading psychology be real to a beginner, when you consider that you are risking losing money at a very fast pace as a day trader, and when you further consider that you are also doing this when you really don't know what you are doing - this is NOT by definition being weak. And if trading psychology is real, how are you going to learn to make 'good' trading habits with real money while you are fighting the implications?

Now what - not trading and not ready [quite] to quit - still studying and searching.

Probably the single most important 'thing' that got me to a next step in learning how to trade, was the concept of a trading setup, and that a setup and a signal were not the same. This was extremely meaningful to me, as it also led to an understanding of how to better use trading indicators for the information that they can provide, but not to use them as trading signals - in essence I began learning about trading method where discretion could be consistently applied -vs- trading system that was mechanical and arithmetic rules.

Traders who are indicator only traders, are also what I refer to right side only traders, that is they are always looking at the right side of their charts for an indicator signal. BUT what about the left side of the chart, what about price and patterns, what about market conditions - WHAT about the relevant 'things' that are 'moving' price, instead of indicators only as an arithmetic derivative of price, and thus, one that is dependant on the time frame that you have chosen to trade from? These 'thoughts', along with the concept of trade setup, became instrumental in the development of a trading method, and how I came to turning my trading around.

When I think about the steps in my learning progression - I would list them as follows:

2/95 - 6/96
indicators only
teaching service that included signals
learning to trading with real money and trading psychology issues
stop trading

6/96 - 3/97
understanding of trading psychology issues
learning about trading setups concept
trading method -vs- trading system
trade setup - trade trigger are not the same
method development
understand the importance of the left side of the chart and what is happening 'across' the chart
related trading setups and how/when they triggered
indicators + pattern
indicators + pattern + price
indicators + pattern + price + market conditions

3/97 - 11/97
able to paper trade profitably
able to real money trade profitably
able to trade for a living

Indicator Only Day Trader - Setup Including Indicators Method Day Trader

I have attempted to discuss the way I started day trading, and the way I think many-most traders typically begin. Along with this, I have pointed various issues and problems that I had - those regarding how to learn to trade, and then progressing into a profitable trader. My experiences have been both personal, as well as those of many traders that I have worked with over the last 8-9 years through Tactical Trading - that a very large number of these problems are due to day trading only with indicators, the specific indicators used, along with trying to turn these indicators into a mechanical trading system. This is not to say that this can't be done - I simply couldn't do it. However, I would strongly suggest that anyone who is in the early stages of day trading, or struggling with their day trading, consider these things that have been discussed.